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Sunshine and Love Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY ACADEMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC | $1,500 |
| AMERICAN BEIYINU ALUMNAE FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| KEQED INC | $1,000 |
| IWEILAN CULTURAL FORUM | $1,000 |
| MILLBRAE CULTURAL CLUB | $1,000 |
| POST -PENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST | $500 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $500 |
| SELF HELP FOR THE ELDERLY | $500 |
| NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION | $500 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $500 |
| NEW HOPE CHINESE CANCER CARE FOUNDATION | $500 |
| FRIENDSHIP MUSIC CULTURE FOUNDATION | $465 |
| COOPER UNION | $300 |
| HOPE CANCER SOCIETY | $279 |
| FILOLI CENTER | $129 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
18 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $129 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- ABAMERICAN BEIYINU ALUMNAE FOUNDATION7× · 2019–2025 · $17k · revenue +637%
- NTNATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY ACADEMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION5× · 2019–2025 · $5k · revenue +622%
- NHNEW HOPE CHINESE CANCER CARE FOUNDATION2× · 2018–2025 · $4k · revenue +106%
Funded once
- TFTAIPEI FIRST GIRLS HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2018 · $3k
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHWEST NEW ENGLAND INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +131%
- GCGALAPAGOS CONSERVANCY INCone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue +16%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To ensure coast redwood forests in the santa cruz mountains thrive for generations to come. since 1900, sempervirens has protected more than 36,000 acres. learn more about our mission, vision, and strategic plan through 2030 at:…
The Chile-California Council is a San Francisco-based nonprofit dedicated to developing and promoting joint endeavors and cooperative relations between Chile and California, as well as individuals, legal entities and other institutions in…
The foundation works with diverse groups representing many interests to acquire and restore critical wildlife habitat and protecting species
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
The asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…
Save Cantonese is an international movement that sustains and celebrates Cantonese language and culture. We have three Strategic Aims: a) protect and strengthen educational and research infrastructure for the Cantonese language, b) affirm…
Gardens of golden gate park connects people to plants, the planet, and each other. the gardens offer educational and experiential programs for visitors and actively manages the living collections.
Tmt international observatory (tio) was founded by the members listed below exclusively to further charitable, educational and scientific purposes and, within such limits, to advance scientific knowledge and education through the study,…
The academy is a renowned scientific and educational institution with a mission to regenerate the natural world through science, learning, and collaboration. based in san francisco's golden gate park, it is home to a world-class aquarium,…
As california state parks' statutory non-profit partner, we have a clear mission - to help strengthen parks and inspire all people to experience these extraordinary places.
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
The institute is dedicated to scientific research, the results of which are used to promote public awareness and education in the areas of conservation biology and ecology,including the wise use of natural resources.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California State Parks Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Wisdom Culture & Education Organization. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 49 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 34 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds AMERICAN BEIYINU ALUMNAE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY ACADEMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KQED INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HOPE CHINESE CANCER CARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST ↗
- Who funds iWeilan Cultural Forum Incorporated ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHWEST NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds YOSEMITE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SELF-HELP FOR THE ELDERLY ↗
- Who funds GALAPAGOS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds ZION NATURAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Wisdom Culture & Education Organization ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds GARDNERS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MILLBRAE CULTURAL COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & RESEARCH CNTR FNDN ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA HUMANE SOCIETY & SPCA ↗
- Who funds FILOLI CENTER ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Sunshine and Love Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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